As a DM, I have allowed some really weird stuff. I want to hear what all you other DM's have allowed as well.
The thing I've allowed that topped it was was Hank the Commie Hunter. A player wanted to be a human from modern times, who traveled to the past with his dimensional time machine, to stop communism. He has a chainsaw fueled by blood, an electric guitar, and a shotgun. He was a barbarian, and the most annoying character. He then got a reboot.
The campaign he was in is a series that I'm DMing, and he is using Hank for each one. He isn't annoying anymore, but we have an established story. There's infinite Hanks, and a citadel of Hanks. Each campaign is the same Hank, but he's a different class, because the time machine messes with his own time. He also was a rock star in the second campaign, with a band called Bionic Poultry, consisting of Jimmy Neutron, Shia Labeouf, and Jeff Goldblum, with their manager Fonsi.
My paladin from the current LMOP campaign has an obsession with collecting goblins he meets along the way. And by collecting, I mean he stows them away in his armour. I won't let him have more than two at a time, but he still clomps around with two goblin heads poking out either side of his. I might throw him a homebrew armour of holding at some point.
The party somehow managed to catch Iarno Albrek's rat familiar, and sure enough, the first thing Pally does is snatch it and shove it in his armour. As he does with any gold they happen across.
Yes, he has a movement and initiative penalty ...
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Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1!
I had a character who was a sentient sword containing the ghost of a knight who possessed the bodies of the people he killed. Since the guy who played him was a longtime player who's great at roleplaying, I allowed it. No regrets...the character was unexpectedly hilarious. He once killed a bartender in order to get a new body and escape the people chasing him. (RIP bartender.)
Not a 5e game, but cool. In my Scion 2e game the Nemotondevos (ancient gods of Gaul [France]) have arisen from the dead. Julius Caesar killed all of them in his apotheosis into the Theoi god of Empires. One of the PCs (a Yazata Scion of the Moon) has an encounter with Caesar and becomes pregnant with his potent divine child. She, of course, escapes from Mount Olympus with the aid of Hera and Pan. When the child is delivered (by cesarean naturally...) the God of Empires sends a howler-letter to the PC demanding she "Render Unto Caesar What Is Caesars!" The PC politely tells him to hang. After a several month arc, the PCs kill Caesar with the weapon *he* wielded two thousand years ago to kill the Nemotondevos. As the God of Empires, Caesar's death has a dramatic effect on the World because western civilization is built on the foundations of the Roman Empire.
I'm slowly turning one of my player's character, with permission, into a prismatic dragon. Which is the last of his kind and King of all dragons in our campaign.
Well we have a pretty crazy group, our Druid is obsessed with collecting road/shop signs and currently has 5 of them, one of which she wears around her neck as armour with a +2 to AC, the same group I allowed them to tame a giant spider they've named Nugget.
Out of game seems two players decided to stop playing early on we've come up with a canon story. So one player was legit Goblin Slayer (the anime character) and he would only come in to play only if goblins were there. The other player that left lied and said he was a goblin king to push our Goblin Slayers buttons so now he's on a quest to find the run away "goblin king" and if they return we're allowing them to PvP for shits and gigs.
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DM and player since late 2018. Been interested in D&D for a few years prior.
I'm from Western Australia, androgynous female, artist, gamer and lover or all things fantasy.
One of my player's backstory IS the previous campaign we played. He really liked his barbarian Angus and was sad that he couldn't play him anymore since we were starting a new campaign in a different setting from level one. So I allowed him to make a backstory that his character was transported across the multiverse and sapped of his strength. He's retained all of his memories from the previous campaign but had to start from level 1.
This has lead towards his history and origin becoming one of the new campaign's major plot points lol. Especially since there are races that he knows of from the previous world that are unknown in this one (one PC is the last of the tabaxi race that went extinct several hundred years ago and has been in stasis until now and the Barb was the only one to recognize since there were tabaxi in the previous campaign).
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As a DM, I have allowed some really weird stuff. I want to hear what all you other DM's have allowed as well.
The thing I've allowed that topped it was was Hank the Commie Hunter. A player wanted to be a human from modern times, who traveled to the past with his dimensional time machine, to stop communism. He has a chainsaw fueled by blood, an electric guitar, and a shotgun. He was a barbarian, and the most annoying character. He then got a reboot.
The campaign he was in is a series that I'm DMing, and he is using Hank for each one. He isn't annoying anymore, but we have an established story. There's infinite Hanks, and a citadel of Hanks. Each campaign is the same Hank, but he's a different class, because the time machine messes with his own time. He also was a rock star in the second campaign, with a band called Bionic Poultry, consisting of Jimmy Neutron, Shia Labeouf, and Jeff Goldblum, with their manager Fonsi.
Also known as CrafterB and DankMemer.
Here, have some homebrew classes! Subclasses to? Why not races. Feats, feats as well. I have a lot of magic items. Lastly I got monsters, fun, fun times.
My paladin from the current LMOP campaign has an obsession with collecting goblins he meets along the way. And by collecting, I mean he stows them away in his armour. I won't let him have more than two at a time, but he still clomps around with two goblin heads poking out either side of his. I might throw him a homebrew armour of holding at some point.
The party somehow managed to catch Iarno Albrek's rat familiar, and sure enough, the first thing Pally does is snatch it and shove it in his armour. As he does with any gold they happen across.
Yes, he has a movement and initiative penalty ...
Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1!
Never tell me the DC.
I had a character who was a sentient sword containing the ghost of a knight who possessed the bodies of the people he killed. Since the guy who played him was a longtime player who's great at roleplaying, I allowed it. No regrets...the character was unexpectedly hilarious. He once killed a bartender in order to get a new body and escape the people chasing him. (RIP bartender.)
The best part? He was a Human Fighter.
Wizard (Gandalf) of the Tolkien Club
Not a 5e game, but cool. In my Scion 2e game the Nemotondevos (ancient gods of Gaul [France]) have arisen from the dead. Julius Caesar killed all of them in his apotheosis into the Theoi god of Empires. One of the PCs (a Yazata Scion of the Moon) has an encounter with Caesar and becomes pregnant with his potent divine child. She, of course, escapes from Mount Olympus with the aid of Hera and Pan. When the child is delivered (by cesarean naturally...) the God of Empires sends a howler-letter to the PC demanding she "Render Unto Caesar What Is Caesars!" The PC politely tells him to hang. After a several month arc, the PCs kill Caesar with the weapon *he* wielded two thousand years ago to kill the Nemotondevos. As the God of Empires, Caesar's death has a dramatic effect on the World because western civilization is built on the foundations of the Roman Empire.
I'm slowly turning one of my player's character, with permission, into a prismatic dragon. Which is the last of his kind and King of all dragons in our campaign.
One of my players came up to me with the idea of a cleric
Named Vlad the Inhaler
Vlad has an asthma inhaler instead of a head
I managed to wrap it in enough backstory to make it seem legit (cursed by a god), but it's still the talk of every session
Currently in my game one player has a Staff of the python. I said ok to polygraphing the snake.
Well we have a pretty crazy group, our Druid is obsessed with collecting road/shop signs and currently has 5 of them, one of which she wears around her neck as armour with a +2 to AC, the same group I allowed them to tame a giant spider they've named Nugget.
Out of game seems two players decided to stop playing early on we've come up with a canon story. So one player was legit Goblin Slayer (the anime character) and he would only come in to play only if goblins were there. The other player that left lied and said he was a goblin king to push our Goblin Slayers buttons so now he's on a quest to find the run away "goblin king" and if they return we're allowing them to PvP for shits and gigs.
DM and player since late 2018. Been interested in D&D for a few years prior.
I'm from Western Australia, androgynous female, artist, gamer and lover or all things fantasy.
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One of my player's backstory IS the previous campaign we played. He really liked his barbarian Angus and was sad that he couldn't play him anymore since we were starting a new campaign in a different setting from level one. So I allowed him to make a backstory that his character was transported across the multiverse and sapped of his strength. He's retained all of his memories from the previous campaign but had to start from level 1.
This has lead towards his history and origin becoming one of the new campaign's major plot points lol. Especially since there are races that he knows of from the previous world that are unknown in this one (one PC is the last of the tabaxi race that went extinct several hundred years ago and has been in stasis until now and the Barb was the only one to recognize since there were tabaxi in the previous campaign).